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NORTH, KATE
Email: katenorthlives@yahoo.co.uk
Kate is a writer who grew up in Cardiff and has held writing residencies in Wales. In 2002 she received a Taliesin Trust Bursary to work with Caribbean Poet Mervyn Morris and won the 2004/5’s Arvon/Jerwood Writing Apprenticeship. She recently completed a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at Cardiff University and has worked as poetry editor for the literary and arts magazine, Aesthetica. Kate has also had reviews published in The New Welsh Review, Aesthetica, Mslexia and The North, as well as poetry published in Scintilla, Orbis Literary Journal, New Welsh Review, Poetry Wales and Ishmael Reed’s KONCH Magazine. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies including Magpie (CCPA, 2000), Reactions; New Poetry, (Pen&inc, 2000) and Pterodactyl’s Wing (Parthian, 2003).
Kate has been short-listed twice for Forward Poem of the Year. She is currently a lecturer in Creative Writing at The University of Gloucestershire. Her debut work of fiction Eva Shell (Cinnamon Press, 2008) is a full length novel written in a variety of genres including letters, text messages, journal entries, poetry and newspaper columns. The story deals with the lives of two Cardiff sisters, Eva and Sally, and ranges across a variety of contemporary themes that impact on their relationship and their identities. Kate is a Member of Academi.
Kate has been short-listed twice for Forward Poem of the Year. She is currently a lecturer in Creative Writing at The University of Gloucestershire. Her debut work of fiction Eva Shell (Cinnamon Press, 2008) is a full length novel written in a variety of genres including letters, text messages, journal entries, poetry and newspaper columns. The story deals with the lives of two Cardiff sisters, Eva and Sally, and ranges across a variety of contemporary themes that impact on their relationship and their identities. Kate is a Member of Academi.
Reviews:
With respect to Eva Shell (Cinnamon Press, 2008)
”…Eva Shell is a refreshingly contemporary novel…Kate North is particularly adept at representing the shifting power relations between siblings, lovers, parents and children…”
Katie Gramich
”…Kate North has done something deeply appropriate to the modern sense of reality by reflecting the way that people live their lives day to day…”
John Freeman
Selected Publications:
Eva Shell (Cinnamon Press, 2008)
Contributed to:
Pterodactyl’s Wing (contributor) (Parthian, 2003)